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Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 8, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 22, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 29, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 29, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 29, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroads. (open access)

Construction of Railroads.

Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for invented a new and useful Nut-Lock. Invention relates to improvements in nut locks of the class known as "spring and ratchet," for the purpose of proving a simple, cheap and easily operated nut lock without injury to any parts, and in which the locking means are concealed and protected while in the operative positions (10-15)
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Beaver, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk or Cabinet. (open access)

Desk or Cabinet.

Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-28).
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Billington, Theophilus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Harris County

Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Harris County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1893
Creator: Blau, F. G.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandrew Attachment. (open access)

Mandrew Attachment.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient mandrel attachment that can be easily attached, detached, and adjusted. It has "a bar at one end with a plate for its attachment and at the other end with a cam and eccentric for detachable connection and adjustment the support carrying the cam and eccentric being hinged so as to drop down so that cylinder work can be slipped over the mandrel and then the eccentric and cam raised up and tightened to the bar to hold the work to be performed" (lines 18-27).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bosley, Lee W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake. (open access)

Machine-Brake.

Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement of the brake lever the said lug or projection enters a tooth of the ratchet wheel and stops the revolution of the same" (lines 14-27).
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Boulte, Adolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bowman, Charles R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine. (open access)

Adding-Machine.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Brooks, Augustus J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 85, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 85, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 86, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 86, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 2, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 87, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 87, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 3, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 88, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 4, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 88, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 4, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 4, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 89, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 89, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 91, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 91, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 8, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 9, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 93, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 93, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 10, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 94, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 11, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 94, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 11, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History